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Hidden Rage

Joshua, a 17 year old student goes to school every day because he has to. Every day he gets picked on, beat up, and bullied. His teachers are unaware, security can only react to what they see, and his only friend is too afraid to help. Rage has a way of hiding itself until it is too late.
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Dove Review

This movie does a good job in portraying rage. The main character, Joshua, a 17-year-old High School student, shows it after being bullied by fellow students and ignored by his parents. His dad is no longer with him, divorced from his mother and working as a truck driver. His mom leaves him video updates such as “There’s food in the refrigerator which you can put in the microwave” and “I have to work over, I love you”. He has too much time on his hand and plays violent video games and watches violent movies on TV. He peruses the internet and checks out weapons for sale.

This movie features two security guards at the school, Kelly and Tony, who are Christians and want to help the kids. However, the content in this movie is strong as it shows the realism of a kid who loses it and buys a gun and enters his high school one day with the intent of following through on the threat he left on the bathroom mirror in red, which was, “You are all going 2 die”. He shoots a few students and one is seen with blood on his chest and blood on the wall behind him. He shoots a security guard too and a lot of blood is seen. He holds his gun on others, threatens them, and eventually puts it to his own head.

Ultimately one of his victims talks to him about Jesus. Because of the violence and drug content in this film and due to its message of redemption and talk of Christ as Savior, we award it our Faith Based Seal with cautions. It certainly makes a statement against bullying. In its closing it shows this statistic: Over 50% of students are bullied mentally, verbally and physically in the U.S.

Dove Rating Details

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A kid is punched and repeatedly kicked; kid's scraped and bruised shoulder is seen; a kid angrily kicks his locker; man remembers his son being shot in a drive-by shooting and taking him to the hospital; kid looks up guns on the internet and he has photos of guns on his wall; a kid is shoved into his locker and a kid empties his book bag out on the floor; a kid imagines another kid pointing a gun at him; bullying; mother and son argue and after he tells her to shut up she slaps him; a kid puts a gun to his own head twice; a kid detonates a small bomb and says he will need a bigger one; a kid is shot and blood is seen on his chest and bathroom wall; kid fires gun and holds it on others; pulls trigger with it pointed to his own head but it is out of bullets; kids who have been shot are taken away in an ambulance; a security guard is shot and a lot of blood is seen; while daydreaming a kid cuts himself with a knife and blood spills and forms a small pool on the floor;

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G/OMG-5; Thank God-1; Loser/Losers-2; Klutz-1; Stupid-1

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Violence

A kid is punched and repeatedly kicked; kid's scraped and bruised shoulder is seen; a kid angrily kicks his locker; man remembers his son being shot in a drive-by shooting and taking him to the hospital; kid looks up guns on the internet and he has photos of guns on his wall; a kid is shoved into his locker and a kid empties his book bag out on the floor; a kid imagines another kid pointing a gun at him; bullying; mother and son argue and after he tells her to shut up she slaps him; a kid puts a gun to his own head twice; a kid detonates a small bomb and says he will need a bigger one; a kid is shot and blood is seen on his chest and bathroom wall; kid fires gun and holds it on others; pulls trigger with it pointed to his own head but it is out of bullets; kids who have been shot are taken away in an ambulance; a security guard is shot and a lot of blood is seen; while daydreaming a kid cuts himself with a knife and blood spills and forms a small pool on the floor;

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Drugs

Two students snort cocaine and ask another student if he wants to join them.

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Nudity

Mild cleavage in a few scenes; shirtless man seen in a few scenes.

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Other

A security guard dances while he is supposed to be working but he doesn't do it again; a girl sees her own photo on the internet and some girls have written "I'm ugly" over her photo; a girl says she would like to go to a movie with a kid and then laughs at him and says she didn't mean it; a kid lies to the principal; a kid is so frightened in one scene that he urinates down pant leg.

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